[ltp] X200 ... opinions

[Christos Papadopoulos]

Has anyone used the SSDs with these machines? How do they fare?

Does Linux see all 4G of RAM?

Also can you tell a difference with the LED backlight? (this might be
moot as they seem to be available only with LED these days)

Christos.

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:15:04PM +0100, Volker Krueger wrote:
> Hi Glenn,
> 
> I am in general quite happy, too.
> 
> It seems that the X200s uses less power than the X200.
> people say that the wireless card IWL5300 is considerably better than
> the IWL5100.
> 
> I have an X200s with a 1400x900 pixels. I am happy about the high
> resolution.
> 
> best,
> Volker
> 
> 
> Glenn Becker wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am eager to upgrade from my 8 year old lappie and have cast
> > interested eyes on the X200 ThinkPad. I'd be interested in reading
> > about experience(s) getting Linux running thereon.
> >
> > FWIW my current laptop is running Slackware and Debian GNU/Linux,
> > WinXP (bleah), OpenBSD, and Plan9. It'd be nice to be able to get all
> > of these set up on a new machine but as I am a bit of an OS
> > dilettante/hobbyist I guess it isn't really ... a dealbreaker if I
> > can't. ;^)
> >
> > If this model and its issues have been covered already, I'd appreciate
> > a pointer to the relevant threads. Thanks a bunch!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Glenn
> >
> > +-----------------------------------------------------+
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> > +-----------------------------------------------------+
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